I read the blurb with some form of illusion that there would be some actual hope in this book. I know lots of research is being done into trying to find a solution to the destruction of olive tree groves all over Europe thanks to another fast moving disease. I thought that this book would be something similar for the American trees.

However what we actually get is very little hope except that there seem to be some trees resistant to the various diseases. The US has already lost the American Chestnut and it looks like hemlock, beech, ash and some oaks are set to join them.

There's very little about how much research is being done into finding solutions and there's also the argument that perhaps we need to leave ancient species to find their own solutions.

The only hope I found was that a lot of unempowered women have found joy in learning to climb trees along with a healthy dose of "aren't trees great".

It's all a bit wishy washy for me. I think I learned more from Richard Powers "Overstory".

A bit disappointing but very nicely narrated by the author.

Thanks to Netgalley and RBMedia for the audio advance review copy.